Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.369
English (machine translation) 2-8.369
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2-8.369
'It is in your head.'
'Strike it off from me!'
'So be it.'
It struck it off.
It bound him in the neck;
it squeezed him.
[Prajāpati said:] 'Strike off this which is like a constraint!'
It struck it off.
It bound him in the waist;
it squeezed him.
'Strike off this which is like a constraint!'
It struck it off.
It bound him in the ankles;
it squeezed him.
'Strike off completely this which is like a constraint!'
It struck it off.
'Step upon it with your feet!'
He stepped upon it with his feet.
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That is indeed this ankle-bone of the feet.
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'Cut it into three!' [it said].
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He cut it into three.
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That became his prosperity: the cow was one-third, sleep one-third, shadow one-third.
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Therefore these belong most abundantly to the best person:
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most abundant are his cattle, [his] shadow is the greatest, he sleeps.
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He reflected: 'This evil which he mentioned to me—come, let me cut it completely away!'
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He separated this very brahman eightfold.
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The Gāyatrī has eight syllables;
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the Gāyatrī is brahman.
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He then separated the brahman eightfold.
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He thrust it away, turned outward, with eight Trivṛt [stomas];
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he thrust it away, turned outward, with eight Pañcadaśa [stomas];
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he thrust it away, turned outward, with eight Saptadaśa [stomas];
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he thrust it away, turned outward, with eight Ekaviṃśa [stomas];
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he made it reach the furthest distance with eight Triṇava [stomas];
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he cut it completely away with eight Trayastriṃśa [stomas].
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That is this Atirātra at the end.
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For his evil was thrust away.
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Moreover, he who burns yonder is Prajāpati himself.
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Having struck off evil, he burns.
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He has no shadow.
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Therefore, one may spit upon a shadow and urinate upon it;
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one thereby strikes evil alone.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit